Kyle Busch’s quest to complete the Dover International Speedway weekend sweep ended in an early crash Sunday.
NASCAR Dover 2014: No tripleheader sweep for Kyle Busch
Any chance Kyle Busch had of winning all three NASCAR races this weekend ended in a crash with Clint Bowyer.
Todd Warshaw
Busch was attempting to pass Clint Bowyer on Lap 124 of 400 when his No. 18 car was forced into the front stretch wall. The damage was substantial and forced Busch to retire.
Unhappy, and despite pleas from his crew, Busch stopped on the track waiting for Bowyer to circle around. Busch eventually caught Bowyer but then drove to the garage without incident. Busch left the track without comment.
“I hated to be in that situation with the 18,” Bowyer said. “It’s one of those deals where I thought I was clear obviously and wasn’t and ruined his day and certainly didn’t help mine.”
Busch had led the opening 81 laps before being passed by Jimmie Johnson. He was contending for the third position when the accident with Bowyer occurred.
The Joe Gibbs Racing driver won the Truck Series race Friday and the Nationwide Series race Saturday. A win Sunday would have given Busch victories in NASCAR’s three national divisions in a single weekend, a feat he accomplished in 2010 at Bristol Motor Speedway -- the only driver ever to do so.
When the FedEx 400 resumed it didn’t take long before another wreck slowed the proceedings, this time necessitating a red flag on Lap 134.
Contact between Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and AJ Allmendinger in Turn 2 caused Stenhouse to drift up and into Greg Biffle. Stenhouse then slid down the track and slammed into the inside retaining wall scattering a large field of debris along the backstretch.
Allmendinger escaped with minimal damage. Stenhouse and Biffle, teammates at Roush Fenway Racing, were not so lucky.
“They were racing hard back there and (Allmendinger) stuck it into a hole that maybe there wasn’t room for,” Biffle said. “There definitely wasn’t room come three-quarters of the way around the corner and he slid off the bottom and got his right-rear caught by (Stenhouse) and up into us. It was a chain reaction.”
Also involved were Landon Cassill and rookies Justin Allgaier and Ryan Truex.
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